Many libraries are already not happy with the extra effort needed to track ebooks at a time when their funding is shrinking. Now HarperCollins has set a limit on the number of times any of their ebooks can be loaned. PW reports. This seems an unwise move on the part of the publisher since delivering ebooks is considerably less trouble than doing the same for physical copies. It will be interesting to see if any other publishers follow suit.

PW lists some of effects Borders' problems have created for other major companies in the industry, and adds that it is the smaller fry that will take the bigger hits. The effects will extend even to authors' advance, because there will be less shelf space to fill with new books.